Search Service Stopped the filter daemon Sharepoint

Computer Networking
Hardware
Internet
Programming & Design
Security
Software
Other - Computers

in Software by Cecilia

While running incremental crawl on sharepoint I am getting below event id every 10 seconds.

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3 Search
Event Category: Gatherer
Event ID: 2478
Date: 27/09/2010
Time: 12:27:22
User: N/A
Computer: PANAAMA
Description:
The search service stopped the filter daemon because it was consuming too many resources. A new daemon will automatically be started, and no user action is required.

Any help on this?

Add Comment

Comments

Commented By: Cecilia On: 10-12-2010

Thanks Topman, I did the chnages and now I do not see the event log message anymore.

Commented By: Topman On: 29-09-2010

I found this very good notes that can help.

IFilter Issues - the Adobe PDF IFilter can only filter one file at a time and that will slow crawls down, and has a high reject rate for new PDFs
Solution: Use a retail PDF filter from pdflib.com or Foxit
Not enought Memory Allocated to Filter Process - an aspect of the crawling process is then the filtering deamons use up to much memory (mssdmn.exe) they get automatically terminated and restarted. There is of course a windup time when this happend and can slow down your crawling. The current default setting is pretty low (around 100M) so is easy to trip when filter large files. You can and should increase the memory allocation by adjusting the following registry keys
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0\Search\Global\Gathering Manager: set DedicatedFilterProcessMemoryQuota = 200000000 Decimal
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0\Search\Global\Gathering Manager: set FilterProcessMemoryQuota = 200000000 Decimal
Bad File Retries - there is a setting in the registry that controls the number of times a file is retried on error. This will severly slow down incremental crawls as the default is 100. This retry count can be adjust by this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0\Search\Global\Gathering Manager: set DeleteOnErrorInterval = 4 Decimal

General Architecture Issues - Ensure that you have at least 2 Gig of free memory available before your crawl even starts and that you have at least 2 real processors available.

Add Comment

Name*

Email*

Comment*

Hot Categories: Other - Entertainment General Health Care Cell Phones & Plans Community Service Programming & Design Marriage & Divorce Cultures & Groups Friends

About Us

Sitemap